Bushnell v. Barker’s Empirical Analysis
2012
Citation profile
1 district · 4 state decisions
Relationships
Relies on VFP VC v. Dakota Co. · 191 Cal. App. 4th 1189 - Shaoxing County Huayue Import & Export v. Bhaumik · 422 N.J. Super. 500 - Sean Wood, L.L.C. v. Hegarty Group, Inc. · 2009 UT App 385 - Dale K. Barker Co., PC v. Bushnell
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 6 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“consists of a conditional if/then statement: (a) If the provisions of a written contract allow at least one party to recover attorney fees in a civil action based upon the contract, (b) then a court may award attorney fees to either party that prevails. An action is based upon a contract under the statute if a party to the litigation asserts the writing’s enforceability as basis for recovery.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“The statute is triggered only when the provisions of the contract would allow at least one party to recover fees if that party had prevailed under its theory of the case.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority“to recover attorney fees in the sense required to trigger the statute.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.